sound lost after kernel upgrade

The sound subsystem had not been crippled.
Creating ACLs (“access control lists”) for files/directories was broken, so the logged in user couldn’t get permissions to access the sound card (and other things).

But yes, I agree, this should have been caught during testing.

Although each update is available for public testing in the update-test repo for at least a week, kernel updates even longer normally (this time not because of an important security fix).
And once again, nobody reported a problem during this time (apparently no users bother to test), so the update got released with this bug.

openSUSE is a community distribution, and needs the help of community members to even be possible.
And that includes all of us.

I had the same problem as most else who experienced this. after digging through other old posts and none of those ideas working for me, I then finally created a new user and sound worked. I copied my /home/newuser/.config/pulse folder to my old account and now sound works for my old account now too.

Sorry, I only read the original post and the next two comments before posting. Figured I would post what did work for me.